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Scalar, vector and tensor perturbations on the Kerr spacetime are governed by equations that can be solved by separation of variables, but the same is not true in generic stationary and axisymmetric geometries. This complicates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajes Ghosh , Nicola Franchini , Sebastian H. Völkel , Enrico Barausse

The ringdown gravitational wave signal arising e.g., in the final stage of a black hole binary merger, contains important information about the properties of the remnant, and can potentially be used to perform clean tests of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-22 Taillte May , Sizheng Ma , Justin L. Ripley , William E. East

We investigate quasinormal ringing in both time and frequency domains for scalar and neutrino perturbations around black hole solutions that simultaneously describe regular and extreme configurations within a non-linear electrodynamics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Milena Skvortsova

Black-hole spectroscopy is a powerful tool to probe the Kerr nature of astrophysical compact objects and their environment. The observation of multiple ringdown modes in gravitational waveforms could soon lead to high-precision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Kyriakos Destounis , Francisco Duque

Using the WKB method, we show that the peak location ($r_{\rm peak}$) of the potential, which determines the quasinormal mode frequency of the Kerr black hole, obeys an accurate empirical relation as a function of the specific angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-29 Takashi Nakamura , Hiroyuki Nakano

We study how quasinormal-mode frequencies may encode information about the effective matter source responsible for black-hole hair. Using the established eikonal correspondence between quasinormal modes and unstable null geodesics, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Ariadna Uxue Palomino Ylla , Kosuke Makino , Akane Tanaka , Akihiro Ishibashi , Chul-Moon Yoo

In this paper, the quasinormal modes of gravitational perturbation around some well-known regular black holes were evaluated by using the WKB approximation as well as the asymptotic iteration method. Through numerical calculation, we make a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Chen Wu

We perform the first nonlinear and self-consistent study of the merger and ringdown of a black hole mimicking object with stable light rings. To that end, we numerically solve the full Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations governing the head-on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Nils Siemonsen

The quasinormal resonant modes of massless neutral fields in near-extremal Kerr-Newman-de Sitter black-hole spacetimes are calculated in the eikonal regime. It is explicitly proved that, in the angular momentum regime ${\bar a}>…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Shahar Hod

This is a short review of the quasinormal mode spectrum of Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr black holes. The summary includes previously unpublished calculations of i) the eigenvalues of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics, and ii)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Emanuele Berti

Motivated by gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers, we present a procedure to compute the leading order nonlinear gravitational wave interactions around a Kerr black hole. We describe the formalism used to derive the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Nicholas Loutrel , Justin L. Ripley , Elena Giorgi , Frans Pretorius

In this second paper of our series started with \cite{Berens2024}, we investigate linearized gravitational perturbations of a rotating Kerr black hole in a non-asymptotically flat spacetime with (anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Roman Berens , Trevor Gravely , Alexandru Lupsasca

Merging binary black holes exhibit a ringdown phase in which they primarily emit gravitational waves in the shape of damped sinusoids corresponding to quasi-normal modes of the Kerr remnant. In general, each mode carries four degrees of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Nicole Khusid , Will Farr , Max Isi

The quasinormal frequencies of massive scalar fields on Kerr-AdS black holes are identified with poles of a certain meromorphic family of operators, once boundary conditions are specified at the conformal boundary. Consequently, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-09 Oran Gannot

The spectroscopic study of black hole quasinormal modes in gravitational-wave ringdown observations is hindered by our ignorance of which modes should dominate astrophysical signals for different binary configurations, limiting tests of…

We present a novel approach, $\textit{Metric pErTuRbations wIth speCtral methodS}$ (METRICS), to calculate the gravitational metric perturbations and the quasinormal-mode frequencies of rotating black holes of any spin without decoupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Pratik Wagle , Nicolas Yunes

We provide a rigorous definition of quasinormal modes for the Kerr black hole. They are obtained as the discrete set of poles of the meromorphically continued cutoff resolvent. The construction combines the method of complex scaling near…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Thomas Stucker

In this paper we focus on the relation between quasinormal modes (QNMs) and a rotating black hole shadows. As a specific example, we consider the quantum deformed Kerr black hole obtained via Newman--Janis--Azreg-A\"{\i}nou algorithm. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Kimet Jusufi , Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Qiang Wu

In this paper we investigate gravitational perturbations of a regular black hole, particularly Bardeen solution. Such system is solution of Einstein equations that do not have a singularity at the origin of the radial symmetry. However it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-17 S. C. Ulhoa

We compute the length and timescales associated with resonant orbits in the Kerr Metric for all orbital and spin parameters. Resonance induced effects are potentially observable when the Event Horizon telescope resolves the inner structure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jeandrew Brink , Marisa Geyer , Tanja Hinderer